FALKIRK face a last-gasp dash to look the part at Hampden after discovering children-sized socks in their new Cup Final kit.

Horrified kitman Gerry Cameron hopes strip makers Puma can courier a fresh shipment to Scotland before tomorrow’s Scottish Cup showpiece – otherwise they’ll live up to their nickname The Bairns for all the wrong reasons. Boss Peter Houston, left, said: “We have a new strip and the kitman, who has had the gear in for a week or so, got it out and found they’ve sent us kids socks.

“We’ll be going out there with ankle socks on! So I’ve left him up there flapping like a bird just now.

“We have other pairs of socks in there but not the new ones we’d expect to go with the kit.

“Hopefully Puma will get the proper socks up to us in time.

“It’s just as well he checked them before the morning or it would have been like the 1987 FA Cup Final when Spurs had their sponsor Holsten on half their shirts but not on the rest.

“Gerry is good at his job but if he’d checked them last week there wouldn’t be a panic. He could be out a job on Monday! But if we win the cup no one will care about the socks.”